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"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest
coward like somebody else." -- Umberto Eco
"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to
come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to
you." -- Marian Wright Edelman
�What part of �Blessed are the peacemakers� don�t they understand?�
-- Bob Edgar
" . . . though apparently the original purpose of bagpipes was to scare the
crap out of the enemy in battle. ("Aiiie! We're being attacked by Catholic
schoolgirls, and you should SEE what they're doing to those poor cats!")."
-- Ehursh
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are
evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
-- Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
"Imagination is a preview of life's coming attractions." -- Albert Einstein
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He
has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would
suffice." --Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former. " -- Albert Einstein
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When
you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours - that's
relativity." -- Albert Einstein
"Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your
own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your work
belongs." -- Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds." -- Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein
"The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism.
Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated
competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to
worship material success as a preparation for his future career."
-- Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
-- Albert Einstein
�Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited
to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire
world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.�
-- Albert Einstein
"Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket
that is fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who
hunger and are not fed, those that are cold and not clothed."
-- Dwight Eisenhower
"You are the music while the music lasts." -- T. S. Eliot
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities,
nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one
life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid
with them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
�For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.�
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it
within us or find it not." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When it is dark enough, men see the stars." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it." -- Epicurus
"Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be
foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third." -- Joseph Epstein
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a
rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz
"Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like
one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you
two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you,
they should have to find you a temp." -- Bob Ettinger
"Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?" -- Euripides, Phrixus, 830
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